They say all the world loves a lover – apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
Sensationalism dies quickly – fear is long-lived.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth – look out!
When do you notice an individual murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
Two people rarely see the same thing.
Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.
The spoken word and the written—there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.
Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money – or the lack of it.
It’s at the back of a lot of crimes. The desire to assert one’s personality.
